Feature #2

The inspiration for my feature #2 this week came from my roommates and their unfamiliarity to recycling. Recycling isn't hard, but there is basic knowledge you need to know, like the fact you can't recycle everything. You should also rinse your recycling from contaminations like food, liquid etc. I know it sounds weird, rinse out my trash before throwing it away? It was weird for me too, but it helps so when the materials are processed into reusable material again its not contaminated with a bunch of sticky stuff, food chunks, etc. and doesn't get into the machines and cause problems.

There are two programs here, curbside and binnie locations. Curbside is self-explanatory, in which you have a blue can at your home and put it on the side of the street on pick up day. The binnie locations are essentially dumpsters located in different part of the city for you to sort through and drop off your recycling. I was lucky enough to enjoy curbside last year, but now take my recycling to a binnie location, because my new apartments don't offer curbside.

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These are the basics of what you can recycle:

Paper (any paper that tears and is not food contaminated); cardboard, magazines, junk mail, phone books, newspaper, etc. 

Aluminum cans, foil, tin, steel bi-metal cans 

Plastic containers with these symbols: 

Although plastic bags have a #2 on them you can't recycle them in your bluecan. You can however store them under the  kitchen sink, or somewhere convenient and take them with you next time you go get groceries. It's a good habit to get into, and a better one is buying reusable bags and keeping them in your car. It takes a while to get into these habits, but if you make a conscious effort then eventually it will become second nature. 

I believe you can recycle them at the binnie locations, based on the Washington County Solid Waste website, which is not user friendly. Their website makes me understand why people don't recycle; it takes a hundred clicks just to learn what you can recycle. The bluecan site a  is lot user friendly, but it also isn't a locally created website either.

Some of my shots a little underexposed; I tend to do that, it will look good on my camera screen but then underexposed on the computer. I just need to trust my exposure meter.

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